Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also
provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Archives. The original materials and copyright to them (with
some exceptions) are the property of the Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco. A transfer table indicating corresponding
box and reel numbers is available at the Hoover Institution Archives.

Abstract: Speeches and writings, correspondence, clippings, other printed matter, and photographs, relating to Russian literature, the
Russian Civil War in Siberia and Mongolia, the career of the White Russian commander Baron Ungern-Shternberg, Russian émigré
affairs, and anti-communist movements in the United States. Includes a translation by Elena Varneck and a fictionalized autobiographical
account of the Russian Civil War.

Language:
Russian and
English.

Administrative Information

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Agent of Provisional Siberian and All-Russian governments (Omsk) in Mongolia

1923

Emigrated to United States

1933

Author,
V pyli chuzhikh dorog

1945

Translator, United Nations

1954 June 9

Died, San Francisco

Scope and Content

This collection consists mainly of the writings of the émigré poet and writer Boris Volkov. During the First World War, Volkov
was a medic with the Russian army on its Western and Caucasian fronts. During the Civil War, he was active in the counterrevolutionary
uprising in Irkutsk in 1918, and thereafter was an agent of the Omsk government in Mongolia, where he reported on the political
and military situation, particularly with regard to the activities of Ataman G. M. Semenov and General Baron R. F. Ungern-Shternberg.

Among his writings, the most significant piece is the unpublished novel "Conscript to Paradise." The novel itself is based
in part on his own experiences and in part on the diary of his wife, nee Elena Petrovna Witte, the daughter of the Russian
Councilor to the Mongolian government, but the completed draft is significantly abridged from the original version. The original
draft is in the form of a large volume of fragments, which may include typescript fragments of Witte's diary (or Volkov's
reworked versions of it). The fragments indicate that the author had in mind a much larger autobiographical novel that would
have encompassed his adventures in Siberia, the Transbaikal region of the Far East, and Mongolia during the 1917-1921 period.
This material has been left largely in the order received.

Other elements of the collection include Volkov's poetry and smaller prose works, some also of an autobiographical nature,
as well as evidence reflecting his anti-Communist views and work in America in the 1930s-1950s. The subject file and printed
matter series contains brochures and clippings on this and other subjects.

Left unfilmed due to the general accessibility of materials are a large number of boxes containing clippings and printed matter
(in Russian and English, from periodicals such as the
San Francisco Chronicle and
Examiner,
Reader's Digest,
American Mercury,
Look, etc.) relating to diverse subjects, the most significant of which are Communism and anti-Communism in the United States
(including large amounts of materials on McCarthy, espionage trials and Communist propaganda and subversion, as well as dossiers
on various public figures representing these movements), international affairs (especially the spread of Communism), and domestic
affairs in the USSR and its satellites and in the United States. This material covers the period from the 1930s to 1953.

Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also
provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Archives. The original materials and copyright to them (with
some exceptions) are the property of the Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco. A transfer table indicating corresponding
box and reel numbers is available at the Hoover Institution Archives.

The Hoover Institution assumes all responsibility for notifying users that they must comply with the copyright law of the
United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.

Series Description

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE,
1915-1953.

Physical Description:
Box 1

Scope and Content Note

Articles about Volkov, autobiographical notes, correspondence, commercial, employment and service records, arranged alphabetically
by physical form

CORRESPONDENCE,
1922-1954.

Physical Description:
Boxes 1-2

Scope and Content Note

Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS,
1913-1950.

Physical Description:
Boxes 2-16

Scope and Content Note

Articles, drafts of unpublished autobiographical novel, poetry, letters to the editor and reviews, arranged chronologically
by title

SUBJECT FILE,
1913-1953.

Physical Description:
Boxes 17-20

Scope and Content Note

Mainly clippings, with some correspondence and writings by others, arranged alphabetically by subject

PRINTED MATTER,
1932-1953.

Physical Description:
Box 20

Scope and Content Note

Unsorted brochures on various topics (mainly communism and anti-communism, as well as China and Mongolia), including some
rare émigré editions

PHOTOGRAPHS, C. 1915-1950.

Physical Description:
Box 21

Scope and Content Note

Ten photographs include one of Volkov, taken during the First World War, three of Russian translators and interpreters working
for the United Nations, and the rest of unidentified people and places

OVERSIZE FILE,
1921-1963.

Physical Description:
Box 21

Scope and Content Note

Scrapbooks containing biographical material and writings, as well as oversize writings, arranged alphabetically by physical
form

Container List

Biographical File, 1915-1953.

Additional Note

See also SPEECHES AND WRITINGS/"A Descendant of Genghis Khan" and OVERSIZE FILE/Scrapbooks

Box 1., Folder 1

Addresses

Folder 2

Articles about or mentioning Volkov. Includes correspondence with
Ripley's Believe It Or Not, 1929 December 19, regarding Volkov's entry, and correspondence regarding celebrations in honor of Volkov, 1931

Daniels, Camilla. Includes related correspondence with others. Consists largely of letters and postcards relating to the translation
of Volkov's unpublished novel, "Conscript To Paradise." See also SPEECHES AND WRITINGS

Background materials. Includes notes by Volkov and others, citations from printed sources, correspondence (between Volkov
and various individuals), recollections by others of Mongolia and the activities of Gen. R. F. Ungern-Shternberg in 1918-1922

Folder 10

Chapter outlines

Folder 11

Contract for the translation of the book

Correspondence

Box 4., Folder 1

General, 1925-1933

Daniels, Camilla. See CORRESPONDENCE

Folder 2

Il'ina, Olga, 1927

Drafts and fragments of drafts. Holograph and typescript. Includes early drafts told from the point of view of E. P. Volkova
(Witte)

Science, Russian. Includes clippings on Russian and Soviet "firsts": inventions and discoveries

Soviet Union--Emigration and immigration

Folder 9

'Nevozvrashchentsy'

Folder 10

Soviet attitude toward emigrants

Folder 11

'Vozvrashchentsy'

Box 20., Folder 1

Tenney, Jack, Senator

Folder 2

Trebitsch-Lincoln

Folder 3

Zakharoff, Basil

Folder 4

Miscellany. Includes clippings on diverse topics from Russian émigré press in China

Printed Matter, 1932-1953.

Box 20., Folder 5-10

Brochures on various topics, some rare émigré editions

Photographs, c. 1915-1950.

Box 21., Folder 1

Ten photographs include one of Volkov, taken probably during the First World War, three of Russian translators and interpreters
working for the United Nations, and the rest of unidentified people and places

Oversize File, 1921-1963

Scrapbooks

Box 21., Folder 2

Biographical material. Contains brief biography of Volkov by unidentified individual, 1963 February 2, clippings (Volkov's poems and articles as well as information about him), correspondence, autographed poems, photograph (undated, World War I period)

Folder 3

Clippings I. Newspaper articles (by and about Volkov) and Volkov's poems. Includes draft of "Predel" (See SPEECHES AND WRITINGS
for other draft), 1921-1933